Is there any point in these sorts of “stats only” collections? Can you use the monsters without the fiction that they are drawn from, which gives them context? The attached file says it is for Episode 175 – that’s still the plan, with more monsters, and possibly the source stories as well.
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Dunsany short stories : Wind and fog
I originally wrote this story up as two elementals, feuding for status, but I think they are likely faeries, as they are interested in the death of humans. Is the fog a sort of meteorological vampire? Can you set it on your enemies? Protect your own ships? Does the Old Winter have a court with…
Read MorePlans for 2019
So, the plan for 2019 is to have weekly podcast episodes and blog posts. The blog posts will be collected into monthly pdfs, and then collected into an annual. The big plans for the year? I’m going to collect the demons into a single document I’m going to collect the Lord Dunsany stories into a…
Read MoreGames From Folktales 2018 numbers
Hi, Every so often, it’s useful to look at the podcast project and see if its worth the work. Originally I was going to do an annual check-in, but I lost that chance this year because of some playing about that Patreon were doing. So, time for the semiannual audit, as part of the planning…
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A note on a treasure that is a monster: Hercules Epitrapezios
I’ve been listening to a book on the history of art forgery, and it mentions that there are several marble copies of a famous bronze statue, which seems likely to house a Spirit of Artifice or a minor Faerie god in Mythic Europe. An epitrapezios is a statue which, in Classical Greece, was meant to…
Read MoreGames From Folktales 2018
So…178 pages of Ars Magica goodness. Note that this is a collection of the episodes as originally published. I’ve since gone through and statted out quite a few of these, but those are going to be collected in new little booklets in 2019. So far they are going to be a Dunsany book and a…
Read MoreGames From Folktales December 2018!
Why, yes, it is really early… I regret that the air elementals don’t have stats, but all air elementals are basically the same guys. Except this one is a sociopath.
Read More“A Lay of St Nicholas” from the Ingoldsby Legends
A bonus episode to celebrate the Feast of St Nicholas, on December the Fifth. I’ve cut the earlier part of the lay, because it doesn’t serve storytelling. I’d note that he’s the saint for merchants, seafarers, and thieves. The thieves sometimes call themselves the “clerks of St Nicholas”.
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The Wolves of Cernogratz by Saki
“Are there any old legends attached to the castle?” asked Conrad of his sister. Conrad was a prosperous Hamburg merchant, but he was the one poetically-dispositioned member of an eminently practical family. The Baroness Gruebel shrugged her plump shoulders. “There are always legends hanging about these old places. They are not difficult to invent and…
Read MoreThe November 2018 Transcipts
This was part of a writing challenge to stat up monsters from the older episodes of the podcast. So, four monster tiny demons, which are going to be added to a demon booklet for a future anniversary.\
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